This week I've been reminiscing about my trip to the Neon Museum this past summer which left me with plenty of inspiration. I've been trying to funnel that inspiration into a set of greeting cards based off of vintage lighted signs. They've been a struggle for some reason and I think I need to stop looking at them for a bit. Maybe my eyes just need a breaking from the eye-bleeding color.

Developing Monster Bash :: While researching a project I have percolating in my brain, I came across this amazing blog post from the Professional & Amateur Pinball Association (PAPA) about the making of the Monster Bash pinball machine. Incredible sketches, notes and production photos abound.

There are always ideas that sit in your head… A stray sentence from ’58 sits in my head, a stray sentence from ’62 sits in my head; I have a title for the past eight years now, which I just love, but I don’t have the story to go with it; I even have a subtitle, but don’t have a story to go with it… You get these little hunks of fragments [and] you just wait, and you’ve got to be very patient. Eventually, if they’re good enough, they come together. If they stink, they fall away.